Norfolk & Wrentham November 2020

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Sports
King Philip Sports Booster Club,
Boys Hockey Team Prepare 200
Bottles of Hand Sanitizer
The King Philip Sports
Booster Club and the boys ice
hockey team labeled over 200
bottles of hand sanitizer at the
start of the 2020-21 school year.
The bottles, purchased by
the district, needed correct labels
before being distributed to
classrooms in the middle school
and high school. Due to the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic, the
district will have hand sanitizers
available in classrooms for students
and staff members.
The labels were printed by
R.E. Anderson Signs of Wrentham
to comply with proper labeling
standards.
King Philip seniors Geoffrey
Bowes, Ryan McCarthy and
Aidan Boulger placed the labels
onto the bottles to assist Facilities
Manager Joseph Zahner, Jr.
with the district's back-to-school
preparations.
The district has also added
additional safety measures in its
schools this year, including plexiglass
shielding for all teachers and
secretaries supplied by Franklin
Glass Company, sanitizer stations
throughout both buildings,
bathroom sink partitions, new
soap dispensers in the bathrooms
and sink replacements. The district
also procured personal protective
equipment (PPE) for all
staff members, as advised by the
Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education (DESE).
Additional safety updates in
the schools include rearranging
gyms and cafeterias into physically-distanced
lunch areas, oneway
hallways and stairways, and
locations for mask breaks.
“We are very thankful for the
boys hockey team and Booster
Club for the time they spent preparing
the hand sanitizer for the
schools,” Zahner said. “We have
taken many safety precautions
prior to our students returning
to our school buildings and we
are looking forward to a safe and
healthy school year."
Senior Geoffrey Bowes helped to
label over 200 bottles of hand sanitizer
in preparation for the start of
the 2020-21 school year.
(Photo courtesy King Philip Sports
Booster Club)
Fiske Library Earns Bruins’ Signed Jersey as part of Summer Challenge
Fiske Public Library is one
of a select group of libraries in
Massachusetts to receive Boston
Bruins prizes for its outstanding
participation in the first ever First
Lady of the Commonwealth and
Blades Summer Reading Challenge.
Elizabeth Nadow, Children’s
Librarian, was excited to be a
prize winner. “Our library users
worked hard this summer to
reach our goal, and this prize is
a testament to their hard work
reading.”
The library will use the jersey
as a raffle prize during its PJ
drive this winter. For each pair of
new PJ’s Fiske patrons donate,
they will receive a raffle coupon
for the jersey. Each winter, the
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library collects new pajamas in
partnership with the Boston Bruins
for homeless or low-income
children in Massachusetts.
The Boston Bruins and First
Lady Lauren Baker teamed up
for the challenge this year as a
way to keep residents involved
with their library’s summer reading
program during a time when
library buildings were closed because
of COVID-19. In total,
challenge participants read over
11,000 books and over 1.7 million
minutes.
“Summer reading is fun, but
it’s also an important part of students’
academic success because
it helps them avoid the summer
slide,” said James Lonergan, the
director of the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners.
Children who read just four
books over the summer do better
on reading-comprehension tests
in the fall than their peers who
read one or no books over the
summer.
In 2019, more than 500,000
people participated in statewide
summer reading programs in
libraries across the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts has offered
statewide online summer
reading programs since 2007. To
learn more about the benefits of
summer reading, visit mass.gov/
libraries. The statewide Summer
Library Program is made possible
through federal funding from
the Institute of Museum and Library
Services.
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